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| September 26, 2006 | Tuesday | Ramazan 2, 1427 |
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‘Dr Khan asked daughter to leak N-secrets’
WASHINGTON, Sept 25: Dr A.Q. Khan had advised his daughter, who lives in London, to disclose Pakistan’s nuclear secrets to the British media, claims President Pervez Musharraf in his book In The Line Of Fire....
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Wapda clueless about cause of outage: More loadshedding likely
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: At least three teams on Monday began probing into Sunday’s country-wide power breakdown amid fears that consumers will face load-shedding for the next couple of days in the absence of any contingency plan, officials said....
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Waziristan accord: Omar’s role denied
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: Pakistan on Monday emphatically rejected media reports that a controversial peace deal signed with militants in North Waziristan tribal area was made possible by a nod from Afghanistan’s Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar....
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Good rapport with Bush: Musharraf
NEW YORK, Sept 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday said he had complete understanding with President George Bush over the Waziristan peace deal and added that Pakistani forces would continue to hunt Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists in the region....
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Power restored to all areas: Wapda
LAHORE, Sept 25: Wapda said on Monday that it had restored power supply to all parts of the country, including Karachi. A meeting at the Wapda House reviewed the situation following Sunday’s major breakdown....
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Musharraf meets Mirwaiz
NEW YORK, Sept 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf had a 30-minute meeting with the APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at the Roosevelt Hotel here on Monday afternoon and both expressed optimism about the future of Indo-Pakistan peace process....
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Pakistani snow leopard at Bronx zoo
NEW YORK, Sept 25: First Lady Sehba Musharraf visited Bronx zoo on Monday afternoon to officially hand over a Pakistani snow leopard cub on loan to the zoo authorities....
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USS Enterprise deployed in Indian Ocean
WASHINGTON, Sept 25: The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier is deployed in the Indian Ocean and ‘prepared for all contingencies’, its top commander said on Monday, as speculation rises over possible US military action against Iran....
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Book makes waves in India
NEW DELHI, Sept 25: President Pervez Musharraf’s autobiographical book, released in New York on Monday, is making waves in India, inviting lacerating rebuttals and sceptical previews on Kargil and other controversial issues, but former army chief V.P....
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‘CIA paid millions for Al Qaeda hunt’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The CIA has paid Pakistan millions of dollars for catching Al Qaeda fighters during the five years since the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, President Pervez Musharraf wrote in a memoir published on Monday....
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Sindh to get Rs1bn for water plans
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has allowed Sindh to manage additional 6,000 cusecs of water for filling the Chotiari reservoir....
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Canadian firm to invest $5bn in oil and gas exploration
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: Canadian company Cathy Oil and Gas Ltd has announced its intention to invest US $5 billion in oil and gas exploration, development production and commercialisation in Pakistan....
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Apex court upholds death sentence
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed all the 12 appeals in two cases of assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf and upheld the death penalty awarded to the convicts by a military court....
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14pc water shortage for Rabi forecast
ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The country may face 14 per cent water shortage during the Rabi season starting on Oct 1 because of decline in storage capacity and river flows, the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) forecast on Monday....
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Pope for joint efforts to end intolerance
CASTELGANDOLFO (Italy), Sept 25: Pope Benedict assured Muslims on Monday that he respected them and was committed to dialogue as he met envoys to defuse anger at his use of quotes saying their faith was spread by violence....
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Seven killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Sept 25: Seven people including a policewoman were killed by suspected insurgents in occupied Kashmir, police said on Monday....
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Top woman official, 10 Taliban killed
KANDAHAR, Sept 25: Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead a top women’s affairs official in Afghanistan in an Taliban-style assassination on Monday while US troops and attack helicopters killed 10 rebels....
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Egypt to relaunch civil N-programme
CAIRO, Sept 25: Egypt is to relaunch its civil nuclear energy program after a 20-year freeze, with plans for a nuclear power station on the Mediterranean coast, officials said Sunday....
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